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The Kindred Spirit Bond makes them powerful.... Lucifer has noticed. As with all young angels on the Guardian path, Allister and Mina undertake a wide variety of missions to discover their Gifts. Meanwhile, Satan and his top lieutenants have a new secret weapon to test, so they set a trap for the pair.

Struggling with her guilt over what she's done to the love of her life and battling the insanity that comes with her lycanthropy, Jane isn't sure she can survive long enough, traveling with the motley group of allied enemies, to make it to her mother and the cure they pray she can give them. Then things get a whole lot more dangerous when Maple, a rouge faerie and perhaps the one person crazier than Jane herself, joins the group to both help and hinder at her whim.

Twelve years ago, a global pandemic known as the Job virus decimated the world’s population. One city withstood the virus by going into lockdown during the early days of the pandemic, erecting a massive barricade wall to insulate themselves from the sick and the dying.

HEROES CAN COME FROM ANYWHERE. Mike seems to fail at everything, feels useless, and is finally sinking into despair. To avoid dragging his wife into the abyss he sees before him, he leaves her, planning to separate from his former life. Knocked out during a fight in an alley, he wakes up to find himself in a strange new world -- a world that desperately needs him. Renamed Richard, a legendary hero from their histories, he must try to save an entire world by finding the effective, powerful man that he was meant to be.

In the 2150s, a scientist discovers time is actually fluid; past, present, and future all exist at the same time. What he doesn't know, is if the current timeline can change when something is changed in the past. The U.S. government wants him to find out. The theme being to make right what once went wrong.

Thirty years in the future, when AI is so advanced that humans live side by side with cognizant robots called Artificials, Kestrel Hathaway must come to terms not just with what machines know, but what they believe. Soon after experiencing a personal tragedy, Kestrel witnesses a terrorist attack and is drawn into a world of conspiracies and lies that she and Jordan, her Artificial, have to untangle. With a second, more brutal attack looming on the horizon, their best chance of stopping it is teaming up with federal counterterrorism agent Nick Vernon.

Jordan DuBois has worked hard to get where he is. As an Assistant Special Agent in Charge for the Office of the Inspector General, his days are full of investigations and paperwork. When he digs into the murder of a small-town farmer as a favor to an old friend, he finds himself embroiled in an investigation that jeopardizes not only his career, but his marriage and his life.

To save humanity, a teen called Kai must wield an ancient miracle working cloak, the Mantle, given him by the Son of God disguised as a Soothsayer, outwit a rogue prophet Elijah disguised as a pirate seeking sacred arrows to destroy the Soothsayer's tomb, before he can raise from the dead and being grace to all mankind. With Anfisa his mother held hostage and time running out, Kai races to thwart the pirate’s apocalyptic plot.

Fold space using the spice mélange and travel from “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away” to the planet Krypton, from Trantor to Terminus, and back to the scorched skies of Earth. This audiobook covers a lot of territory. It spans galaxies and universes. Nevertheless, the great expanse of human imagination will forever be captivated by the events of the little town of Bethlehem. There is a reason that all of mankind’s stories overlap, coincide, correlate, and copy. Like it or not, all mankind bears the same indelible stamp, the mark of Christ.

Do you use your pain to wound or heal? Can love overcome a legacy of abuse? Darnell is at the top of his profession, wealthy and successful, yet cruel. The revenge he took against his abusive father haunts him. He has spent his whole life denying love, which as a young boy he learned to fear. Mona, his granddaughter, conceived from darkness and violence, brings powerful opportunity for profound healing. She is the necessary trial before redemption may be achieved—the final reckoning for how he has lived his life. The lessons in what love really is, begin now.

Selig, seltsam, schrullig-schön: Das etwas andere Weihnachtsbuch von Alfred Komarek Wie kann man die schönste Zeit des Jahres genießen? Alfred Komarek kennt die Antwort. Das mit dem Genießen ist gar nicht so einfach - neben stressigen Einkäufen und Geschenketrubel bleibt oft kaum Zeit, um mit sich selbst in Einklang zu kommen. Genau dafür ist dieses spezielle Weihnachtsbuch da: Alfred Komarek lädt zum Innehalten ein, zum Staunen. Wie kann man Weihnachten in dieser hektischen Zeit noch mit Freude begegnen?

At great personal cost, Nara Dall has defeated King Vorick, yet the Great Land is still not free. Her twin sister, Kayna, has taken the throne and is committing unspeakable acts. If the terrifying rumors hold true, she will soon have cursed warriors at her disposal - an army to hunt Nara down and destroy everything she holds dear.

Gideon has agreed to hunt down and kill Ethan in order to save the life of his child. Meanwhile The Order of Shaddai faces a threat unlike any it has ever known, and Wayland's King Stephen, defeated already at Emmanuel City, must hold fast against Mordred's army of giants coming to invade Wayland. The prophecy of Shaddai waits to be fulfilled, but will Ethan be successful? Is he even the one to fulfill it?

Open your heart and mind to the simplicity and complexity of a name. I know only my name. Beyond that is confusion, a void where fantasy and reality swirl together. Fairies, Giants, Elves, Dwarves, ancient Keepers, and...Dragons? A dark soul threatens the Five Kingdoms, but I am powerless to stand against him, overwhelmed by phantom memories, broken and lost

Set in the very near future, A Time to Run opens with the strange and sudden, "in the twinkling of an eye", disappearance of millions of the Earth's citizens. Married couple, Matt and Jenny Jacobs, attempt to escape the stranglehold of a Global State ruled over by a thoroughly evil World President, Byron East. In a cashless society the currency is electronic credits. Unless fully tied into the One World System, there will be no credits, no means to buy or sell, no ability to afford travel or the fuel to travel - therefore no means of escape! But the wind is still free.

22-year-old soldier Gunnar Graves lost his faith and his family when a platoon of AI-driven war machines—led by an android fire mage—destroyed his unit. Forced to live in a machine-controlled village and hiding a dark secret, he spends his days trying to learn elemental power so he can take his revenge. After years of failure, his ability ignites when he least expects it. On the run and hunted by the war machines, Gunnar discovers that an ancient life-based strength has awakened to help humanity fight back.

Fletcher and Scoop are Apprentice Adventurers from the ancient establishment of Blotting's Academy on Fullstop Island, the place where all story characters are trained. The trouble is, they can't remember how they got there. It's the first day of term, but the two apprentices soon realize something is wrong. Things are going missing, including their own memories, and Scoop has the unsettling feeling that something is creeping in the shadows. As the children search for answers, they become entangled with the life of the Storyteller, the island's creator and king.

After finding two ancient silver shekels in an old robe, Professor Sam Godfrey and Achava, guardian of Israel and its sacred artifacts, believe they've been chosen to find the rest of the coins. Sam and Achava follow the trail of the robe to a man who tells them they have 30 days to find the rest of the shekels. He warns that if they don't succeed in time, something catastrophic will happen.

It is said that chess grandmasters can envision a match’s outcome 10 moves before it occurs. Imagine a person who can visualize 10 steps ahead, not simply in the game of chess, but in every human interaction. Imagine a person who could anticipate what you would say before you said it, who could see a punch before it was thrown. Imagine a secret that could make all of this possible. Albert, a Princeton mathematics professor, is such a person, and as he is thrust into a murder and burglary investigation on campus he finds that the secret is buried in an obscure cipher.

No one in the small, west Texas town of Shadow Ridge knows what took down the power grid, or when it's going to be back up. And now, the men and women responsible for keeping the town safe are going to have to learn how to fight crime all over again. Deputized by his father in the isolated town, Levi McQuaid is caught up in a missing persons case that has the potential to destroy everything he holds dear. Levi searches for the sister of an old friend, Ava Solomon, but the situation takes a deadly turn when the search leads them on a dangerous trek across the west Texas desert.